Updates - UP TO RAWDON, © by Daniel B. Parkinson Page 1 of 100 , revised October 2, 2019 UP TO RAWDON was published in paperback and PDF formats, on February 16, 2013. See www.uptorawdon.com/#order. This document Author’s and Readers’ Updates (www.uptorawdon.com/updates) contains revised text, comments and contacts for readers interested in particular families. It is updated periodically. Associated photographs are found at www.uptorawdon.com/updates-photo Page Family Details i Cover: Johnston Cabin (Tenth Range, Lot 24 South) by the late Linda Blagrave, photographed by Richard Prud’homme, of Rawdon. Ken McRory, Guelph, Ontario designer. Part One correction: ISBN 978-0-9917126-0-1 (paper) ii correction: ISBN 978-0-9917126-2-5 (e-book) Part One, map correction: The title should say RAWDON TOWNSHIP IN 1820; the caption makes it clear the map was page iv originally drawn in 1805. This map image is found in Part One and Part Two. and Part Two. How a copy of the map was used by William Holtby when Township Secretary Treasurer is described in Part page iv One, page xviii, paragraph four. Photo www.uptorawdon.com/photop372 of Michael E. Holtby of Denver, Colorado holding his 3X great grandfather’s copy of the map and which Michael has given to me. This 1840 and later Rawdon Township map is accessible to all at http://uptorawdon.com/research.html. Page xiii Colclough Background on the crown agent Guy Carleton Colclough and his father Major Beauchamp Colclough and their P’gph. 2 connection to the former Governor of Quebec: http://uptorawdon.com/41-Beauchamp-Colclough.pdf Page xviii Holtby Michael Holtby is a 3X great grandson of William Holtby P’gph. 4 5 Allen 1837-1839 Militia Pay Lists: John Allen senior and John Allen junior were on all the militia pay lists. The third son David Allen was added to the list in December 1838; when he had turned 16. There is no sign of the eldest son James Allen who apparently had left the township. 6 Knox & Allen John Knox and Eleanor Allen of Kildare were born in County of Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The nature of his relationship to James Knox who settled at Kildare circa 1829 is not clear to me. James and his wife Nancy Lynn arrived at Kildare with their children: John Knox (who married and had a family with Eliza Johnson at Kildare), Andrew Knox and Helen Knox. Another daughter, Margaret Knox, was born at Kildare and married Robert Stafford, of Kildare, in 1853. Bill Clayton ([email protected]) pointed out that Eleanor Allen Knox was not related to the Rawdon Allens. She arrived at Quebec City, from County Derry [sic Londonderry], with her husband and son both named John Updates - UP TO RAWDON, © by Daniel B. Parkinson Page 2 of 100 , revised October 2, 2019 Knox in 1850 (Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871 Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1988). John was a wheelwright and farmer and was 33 - 40 years older than his wife. He was literate and had signed the register at the baptism of his youngest daughter. He died, aged 79, on the 15 September 1871 (or born c. 1792) and was buried on 17 September, as recorded in the Rawdon Methodist register. Children of John Knox and Eleanor Allen: baptisms from Rawdon Methodist Church although on census they belong to the “Scotch Church”. John Knox was born Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 25 December 1849 and was on the farm at Kildare with his parents in 1852, 1861, 1871. He went to North Dakota with his brother-in-law Thomas Tighe. He married Mary Winters, 22 November 1894 at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; she was born 9 July 1860 at Kildare and lived at Pembroke, Ontario before her marriage. John Knox died at Westbourne, MB, 29 March 1921 and Mary Winters at Winnipeg, 17 April 1938. They farmed at Plumas Township, Westbourne, Dauphin, Manitoba in 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1921. They were Methodist. Living with them from 1906 was Mary’s mother Ann Winters born in (Tyrone) Ireland, April 1823 (immigrated in 1823) and died 25 March 1912 Westbourne. Ann was a daughter of Robert Winters, a settler at Kildare. His sister Sarah, was the mother of Robert Stafford who married Margaret Knox, see above. Children of John Knox and Mary Winters: Elmer Allen Knox was born at Plumas, Manitoba 28 August 1900. He moved to Winnipeg in 1926 and was joined by his mother and sister when the farm was sold. He married Elma Dyck in 1932. They had a son Garnet Knox in 1934 of Thunder Bay in 1976 and daughter Valerie Knox Kemp in Montreal. Irene Knox was 12 [sic] years in 1921 and was an adopted child. Rebecca Knox was born 20 August 1852 and baptized 9 January 1853 in the Rawdon Methodist Church. She is named on the 1861 census and is recorded as Relleska [sic Rebecca], 17, living with Handy [sic Andy] and Helene [Helen] Knox in 1871. Rebecca married Thomas Nicholson [sic] of Verdun, a milkman, in 1881 they are on census with three children under 5. He died in 1882; she then married William Fennel. She died 6 April 1886, and is recorded as Roman Catholic at all these events. The name on census, marriage and burials is Nicholson and not what was recorded when the children were baptized / registered. Children of Rebecca Knox and Thomas Nicholson: born at Montreal Thomas Nichols – 3 October 1877 baptized St. Paul R.C. John James Nicols – 24 May 1876 baptized St. John’s Anglican Kildare Hannah Nicolas -15 February 1881 baptized St. Paul R.C. Mary Ann Nicols – 15 December 1882 baptized St. Gabriel R.C. Updates - UP TO RAWDON, © by Daniel B. Parkinson Page 3 of 100 , revised October 2, 2019 The children may have been distributed between John Knox and Mary Knox Tighe. Ellen Knox was born 8 December 1852 [sic] and was baptized 11 December 1855. The recorded year of birth should perhaps be 1853. She was deceased before 1859 when another daughter received the name Eleanor. Mary Knox was born 29 July 1856 and baptized 19 August 1856. She married Thomas Tighe (of Rawdon) 1 April 1882 at Bismarck, North Dakota. See pages 912 and 913 of Part Two and update p. 913. She died 28 March 1946 in Los Angeles, California. Thomas Tighe and Mary Knox were at Grassy River, near Portage la Prairie, for the 1891 census, recently arrived with their American-born children, the youngest identified as “Topsy”. All their children are named on page 914 of Part Two. Eleanor Knox was born 13 April 1859 and baptized 1 April 1860. James Andrew Knox was born 25 September 25, 1861 and was baptized 7 December 1863. He was not on the 1871 census and presumed deceased before that date. Sources: Rawdon Methodist register; Kildare and Montreal Censuses 1851-1881; The Irish Settlement of Kildare Township, Quebec; Donald A. Porter, Vancouver, 1989; Manitoba Vital Statistics & Census; Browsing Through the Years, Plumas and District 1876-1976; Bill Clayton, and Nancy Cherry. 7 Bagnall 1837-1839 Militia Pay Lists: The three adult males from the family are all accounted for. In 1837, at about 22 years William Bagnall was already a captain. His father, Robert Bagnall and uncle, Abraham Bagnall were privates. In November 1838, Robert appears to be promoted directly to major. Apparently, he was a captain first; see Racine (page 1103 0f Part Two). This made him second in command to Lt. Col Griffiths. There is no evidence that Robert was a former military man but was a community leader. 7 Bagnall etc. The last sentence of paragraph two should begin: “The chapter and appendix (on website)” on the Rourke family instead of “The two chapters” on the Rourke family. Updates - UP TO RAWDON, © by Daniel B. Parkinson Page 4 of 100 , revised October 2, 2019 14 fn. 17 Chamberlain William Chamberlain also had a granddaughter in Canada. Mary Ann Whittaker was born 1811, in Ireland, her mother was Ellen Chamberlain. She married a former Rawdon settler, Robert Knowlton, at Montreal, in 1838. Robert and his father, Samuel Knowlton, owned 7th Range, Lot 14 adjacent to Robert Bagnall (7 / 15). We know her relationship to Chamberlain from her obituary. "On Wednesday the 21st at 5 p.m., Mary Ann, wife of Robert Knowlton, eldest daughter of the late Wm Whittaker, Esq., Edenderry, King's County, Ireland, granddaughter of Rev. Mr. Chamberlain of Ballycommon ... age 59 ... funeral at her son's, 154 Brock.” – Toronto Globe, Dec 23, 1870. See UP TO RAWDON: Knowlton: Father and Son pages 499 - 504. It seems William Chamberlain had at least one other daughter in Lower Canada. “Mary Augusta, wife of Robert Payne, daughter of Rev. William Chamberlin [sic], late of the parish of Ballycommon, King's County, Ireland, died Aug 24, 1851” from the inscription on headstone #449 in Cowie Street Cemetery, Granby, Quebec. (Ancestry). She was the mother of ten. One son, Edward Payne (1814), who accompanied his parents to Montreal, settled at Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he owned three coal mines. Possibly there was another Chamberlain daughter at Granby. Margaret Payne, daughter of “George Payne and Hannah Chamberlain” of Granby was married on 13 March 1846 in the Anglican Church. 14 fn. 19 McNown & The McNown and Craine families were originally from Ardglass, County Down as explained in footnote 13 on Craine page 339. 14 -15 McNown & Mary Ann Richardson was born May 26, 1839 in New York, New York. She married Elmon John Craine Craine (born February 14, 1832 at Rawdon, Quebec, his baptism not found); he was the youngest child of Robert Craine and Elizabeth McNown.